WARSHIPS IN THE PACIFIC.
The whereabouts of the German warships in Eastern waters is giving rise to speculation, and conflicting reports have been received, all of which have to be taken with great caution. A report from Sydney, dated August 4, stated that two German cruisers had been sighted off Thursday Island, in Torres Strait. A New York cable ot the following day stated that the German cruiser Nurnberg had left Honolulu, presumably for Samoa, or the South Seas, A report from Ottawa stated that two Germ cruisers operating in the North Pacific were stopped while endeavouring to pass the examing control-—pre-sumably at Vancouver—and on being informed that war conditions existed submitted to the regulations. Yet another cable reports that the German cruiser Emden was sunk during an engagement with a Russian cruiser off Wei-hai-wei, in China, while according to a later cable, the German Pacific fleet has left Tdugtau, in China, bound northwards, in search of the Russian fleet. These messages account specifically for six German cruisers
in the Pacific, which is the total strength of Germany’s Pacific fleet. The German ships in commission in Eastern waters comprise two armoured cruisers, the Gneisenau and the Scharuhorst; three third-class cruisers, the Leipzic, the Etndeu and the Nuruberg; the supply ship, Tilania ; and a number of gunboats which are generally attached to the China station. If these b?we concentrated in Chinese waters the South Pacific shipping routes are freed from the menace of German attack.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1283, 11 August 1914, Page 4
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244WARSHIPS IN THE PACIFIC. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1283, 11 August 1914, Page 4
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